(July 13, 2021 at 6:09 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The question being reformed to something like -if people were 100% unfun, would that be better or worse.
Sounds pretty bad.
-but then again, it only sounds pretty bad to me, a person with some fun. They might not notice, being fun-free. Hellscape is probably too strong. More like boring?
Hellscape may be a bit too strong. But not entirely off the mark.
One thing that comes to mind in my considering of this issue is Plato's Republic. I think our society should be more ruled by reason and logic (as Plato thinks). We could fix climate change tomorrow if that were the case. But at the same time, Plato's vision sounds a little bit like a Hellscape. I have huge issues with his ideal society. And the sticking points are where he tries too hard to circumvent (or overcome) the human emotions and impulses and put them under the rule of reason.
Not that Plato wants to destroy emotion or desire. He sees them as necessary (he even writes extensively of their beauty). His project is to put them in their proper place (where they are happiest). But it's a little problematic (and hellscapey) to try to actually do this if you ask me.
Also unfun.
